Ann Savoy revisits her Virginia roots with new album | Music
After more than 40 albums — mostly of Cajun music but also two gypsy jazz releases and a duets album with Linda Ronstadt — Ann Savoy has recorded her solo
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After more than 40 albums — mostly of Cajun music but also two gypsy jazz releases and a duets album with Linda Ronstadt — Ann Savoy has recorded her solo
click to enlarge After Ann Allen heard Cajun music, her love for the French language entwined with a passion for the traditional music of southwestern Louisiana. That dual fascination bloomed further during the Richmonder’s trip to the 1976 National Folk Festival at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Meeting a group of Cajun musicians there playing under a tree, she found all of them intriguing, but noticed the handsome accordion player most of all. He noticed the radiant young woman from Richmond, too. A year later, Allen married Marc Savoy at a fall foliage-drape...